Of course I don't think Sweden's got some kind of special relationship to Opera... but perhaps Opera is simply more well-established here in Europe and therefore is to be launched here first? (Please do not bring me nice graphs showing web browser distribution because frankly it was just a wild guess).

I doubt it it would be suicide for the forecast channel if they charged for the access since almost all Cable and Satellite providers offer a forecasting service..oh yeah then theres this thing called the internet and a million websites like this one